Scientific production on "intersectionality" and its conceptualization in the Spanish-speaking environment: a review of the profile of academic producers in Latin America and Spain 30 years after the coinage

The term 'intersectionality,' coined by the African American legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, has been widely used in many contexts and disciplines; it has greatly transcended the field of Critical Race Theory. This research explores the intersectional scholarship in Hispanic America to track its critical reception in Spanish, with a special focus on the role given to race in this context. Understanding that knowledge circulates and is shaped by the material and geographical conditions of its production, this qualitative research has used mixed methods to make sense of the scholarly production of knowledge that used the concept. The sample was constructed through a search using the keyword 'interseccionalidad,' in Spanish, in the databases Scielo and Scopus. 134 authors responded to a questionnaire we had put together to approach their individual perspectives on the concept. This article wants to open an ethical and epistemological discussion of intersectionality and its political and analytical contents in the Spanish-speaking scholarship that deals with race and racism.